plot bunny
See also: plotbunny
English
Alternative forms
- plotbunny
Etymology
From the metaphorical image of the writer's brain producing ideas with the abundance and speed with which rabbits are fabled to breed.
Noun
plot bunny (plural plot bunnies)
- (chiefly fandom slang) An idea for a story, usually referring to an author having more ideas than he or she can use.
- 2003, Glatzer, Jenna, Outwitting Writer's Block: And Other Problems of the Pen, →ISBN, p. 99:
- "Alternatively," she [T.M. Taylor] says, "the plot bunnies may be going somewhere you don't want to go, like when the plot calls for the death of a favorite character"
- 2003, Glatzer, Jenna, Outwitting Writer's Block: And Other Problems of the Pen, →ISBN, p. 99: